Trademark Registration Timeline

Each trademark application with the USPTO is unique. The application process is lengthy and complex, and features multiple stages or steps. For some applications it is much longer and features additional steps . For example, any one of the following will delay the application process:

Office Action

Requests for Reconsideration

Ex Parte Appeal

Extension of Time to Oppose

Notice Opposition

Suspension

Notice of Allowance

When an application is filed based on use of the mark in commerce and when there are no hiccups, the fastest an application can be issued today is seven months after the application filing.

For example, see the record for Serial No. 5433300 for NETSCAN. The application was filed Aug. 30, 2017. The registration was issued March 26, 2018, two hundred and nine (209) days later.

This “clean” application which involved no response or input from the applicant after the initial filing still went through various phases and procedures at the USPTO, as illustrated in the TSDR records: